{"slug": "the-anger-isn-t-at-the-tool", "title": "The Anger Isn't at the Tool", "summary": "A data engineer who uses AI daily has expressed growing disillusionment with the technology, arguing that the anger is not directed at the tool itself but at the relentless hype and self-interested marketing surrounding it. The engineer describes feeling bombarded by fear-mongering and utopian claims from parties profiting from AI, making it difficult to distinguish genuine progress from marketing. While acknowledging AI's utility for automating boilerplate tasks, the engineer laments the loss of ownership and satisfaction that comes from hand-crafted code.", "body_md": "I have become angry and disillusioned with AI. And the anger is not even pointed at the tool. I do use it daily, it helps with the annoying tasks, it's a better google, I can use it to research interesting topics. So where is this anger coming from and why?\n\nSome people have made comparisons that the advent of AI is on the same level as the invention of electricity. While the validity of these claims is yet to be seen, AI has already been highly integrated into our daily lives and outside work I believe parts of daily life have gotten worse for it.\n\nEach day I will be constantly bombarded with AI news and the constant fear mongering or hyper utopian thinking how it will change everything. It gets old and I wish to somehow escape this hyper-focused bubble that I unwittingly became a part of.\n\nNvidia - you need to use more tokens (supplies GPUs). Anthropic - we can't release Mythos to general public it's too dangerous (releases a few months later anyway). LinkedIn dude - how AI is changing the world (sells some AI wrapper SaaS bs). The list could go on. Everyone that's being loud is in one way or another profiting from AI, building a personal brand or having any other number of motivations. There is nothing wrong with this, but it has gotten tiring lately for me to think in this cynical way.\n\nWhat gets me is watching smart people launder marketing into fact and repeat the talking point without ever asking who gained by saying it first. And then I'm stuck mid-conversation, fighting myself over whether to be the buzzkill or just let it go.\n\nBasically, there is too much nonsense being thrown around by self-interested parties that it's hard to validate what's real and what's just marketing. And I don't see a way how I can get back the innocence and become less cynical regarding anything AI I hear about.\n\nI started my career as a data analyst, it took years to hone the skills and I had gotten better and better at dashboard design, then at one point that was not enough for me anymore and I decided to move to data engineering as I wanted to get closer to the technical side. As a data engineer it took again years to learn the craft and get confident with the tools.\n\nBut everything changed when AI models attacked, no longer do I need to write the boilerplate, those automations that I couldn't find the time for - done in the background, and I am happy with this. However, with the code side in many cases now getting delegated to AI, you lose a part of ownership you would otherwise feel, even if the AI generated code was 100% correct and bug-free, there's something to say about knowing the code and being able to easily iterate on top of it.\n\nThe dopamine hit you get from spinning the slot machine that is prompting is not as great as seeing your hand-coded pipeline run successfully for the first time after debugging it for a day, or finding that pesky little bug that was causing issues after a long session. Yes, this is not something that brings value for a business, so maybe it shouldn't matter, but it does.\n\nWill these things make me stop using AI and go live under a rock? Hell no, I am excited about what it lets me do, I didn't write this to be a contrarian.\n\nGetting this on paper helped me better understand my anger towards it and I hope it helps someone else. AI is a great tool, yes, tool, nothing else, so don't let the snake oil salesmen talk you into trading your soul or even worse, your time for it.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-anger-isn-t-at-the-tool", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/konstantinas_mamonas/the-anger-isnt-at-the-tool-1nj2", "published_at": "2026-06-06 05:16:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-06 05:42:12.203222+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy", "ai-startups", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Nvidia", "Anthropic", "LinkedIn"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-anger-isn-t-at-the-tool", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-anger-isn-t-at-the-tool.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-anger-isn-t-at-the-tool.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-anger-isn-t-at-the-tool.jsonld"}}